I’ve been teaching several SharePoint training classes in Tulsa, OK. This morning while teaching an Admin class reality smacked me right across the face and I hadn’t even had a cup of coffee yet. We had just begun our first lab and several students were unable to access Active Directory (AD) “Users and Computers.” Once we assigned a static IP Address to the Virtual Machines all was fine. Oh, how easy it is too forget that Windows Services such as AD really like having an IP Address.